Word of the Day for Tuesday March 14, 2006 uxorious \uk-SOR-ee-us; ug-ZOR-\, adjective: Excessively fond of or submissive to a wife. It is batty to suppose that the most uxorious of husbands will stop his wife's excessive shopping if an excessive shopper she has always been. -- Angela Huth, "All you need is love," [1]Daily Telegraph, April 24, 1998 Flagler seems to have been an uxorious, domestic man, who liked the comfort and companionship of a wife at his side. -- Michael Browning, "Whitehall at 100," [2]Palm Beach Post, February 22, 2002 Fuller is as uxorious a poet as they come: hiatuses in the couple's mutual understanding are overcome with such rapidity as to be hardly worth mentioning in the first place ("How easy, this ability / To lose whatever we possess / By ceasing to believe that we / Deserve such brilliant success"). -- David Wheatley, "Round and round we go," [3]The Guardian, October 5, 2002 _________________________________________________________ Uxorious is from Latin uxorius, from uxor, wife. References 1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ 2. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/ 3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/ Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=uxorious